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Hi my acer lap top is in safe mode and wont start if i buy a fix it cd will this work thanks alicia

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Most likely a new hard drive is needed as well as the cd
hard drives causes this message
turn off the computer without logging off will decrease the life of any hardrive
ten years is the normal life expectancy of hard drives years ago
more are use too often so 5 years is tops these days

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Use the recovery cd included with the laptop to boot from it and recover your OS.
or when turning on the computer it should show you "press F2 for set up" identify the recovey option normally "F8" and boot from it

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Since you can boot in safe mode, teh you should try using the SYSTEM RESTORE to take it back to the day the problem started, try that first.
For example of XP: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/systemrestore.mspx

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